"Shipyards are the heart and soul of modern societies. They are factories of gigantic dimension, built to manufacture all the space vehicles and even build and sell whole construction kits for new factories. Because of the immense resources and labour required to build as well as run a factory like this, shipyards are rare to encounter. The Paranid build their spaceships in large automated assembly plants. In these factories they forge their own metals and plastics, design and develop new ships, as well as constructing and testing the entire range of Paranid space ships."